External links
- Abhijit Deshpande at ESPNcricinfo
- Abhijit Deshpande at CricketArchive (subscription required)
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| Full name | Abhijit Prakash Deshpande | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | February 22, 1968 Poona, Maharashtra, India | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting | Right-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 1986–1992 | Maharashtra | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Abhijit Prakash Deshpande (born 22 February 1968) is a former Indian cricketer who played for Maharashtra in Indian domestic cricket. He was a right-handed top-order batsman.
From Pune,Deshpande made his first-class debut in December 1986,playing against Saurashtra in the 1986–87 Ranji Trophy. [1] He scored his maiden first-class half-century during the 1990–91 season,making 60 against Gujarat. [2] In the 1991–92 Ranji Trophy,Deshpande scored 465 runs from six games. [3] In the first game of the tournament,against Gujarat,he scored 217 from 329 balls opening the batting with Surendra Bhave,putting on 287 for the second wicket with Santosh Jedhe. [4] In the tournament's quarter-final,against Haryana,he scored 86, [5] but that was his last appearance for Maharashtra. [1]
